MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8873, 6 November 1907, Page 5

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

— MEASURES TO BE PASSED THIS SESSION. DATE OF PROROGATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 5. In the House of Representatives, this afternoon, the Premier intimated that it was proposed to pass the following bills this session:—lmplement Manufacture Importation and Sale Bill; Police Offences Bill; Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Acts Amendme it Bill; Marine Insurance Bill; Fire Brigades'Bill; Taumaranui Town Council Election Validation Bill; Scaffolding Inspection Act Amendment Bill; Coal Mines Act Amendment Bill; Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Bill, Maori Lund Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment ~ Bill; Ngaimaru Landless Natives Bill; Government Advances to Settlers Bill; Local Bodies Loans Act Amendment Bill; Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Bill; Post Office Savings Bank Funds Investment Bill; Bills "of Exchange. Act Amendment Bill; Flour and Other Products Monopoly Prevention Bill; Sea Fisheries Bill; Tramways Amendment Bill; Indictable Offences Summary Jurisdiction Amendment Bill; Factories Act Amendment Bill; Christchurch District Drainage Act Amendment Bill; Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Bill. All the foregoing bills are on the present Order Paper. Referring to the Meikle Bill, the Premier said that Cabinet was considering it, and he would make a statement in regard to the bill tomorrow night. The bills that had not yet been circulated, and which the Government intended to put through this session, were the Amendment to the Education Act; Hospitals Act; Public Health Act; Defence Act Amendment Bill, Butter Export Bill; Divorce Act Amendment Bill; Railway Service Classification; Post and Telegraph Classification; Civil Service Superannuation; Infant Life Protection Act Amendment; Industrial Arbitration Act Amendment; Packet License Regulations Amend ment; Shops and Offices Bill; Beer Duty Bill; Postage Stamp Machines Bill; Reserves Vesting Enabling Bill; Landless Natives Bill and Dairy Factories Act Amendment Bill. The Premier said that the only contentious measures were the Gaming and Lotteries Bill, Flour and Other Products Monopoly Prevention Bill, Tramways Amendment Bill; Native Land Bill; Civil Service Superannuation Bill; and Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. He added that the Noxious Weeds Bill will be kept till the next session, but the bill dealing with the restriction of the immigration of Chinese would be gone on with. The Premier intimated that the Public Works Statement would be brought down on Friday, and he hoped to take the debate on Monday evening.. Continuing, he said that as a number of measures had reached the third reading stage, and the majority of the other, measures were non-contentious, he thought Parliament would be able to pro-, rogue on November 20th. j

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